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Mozilla has introduced a third DNS-over-HTTPS provider for Firefox.

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Mozilla has reached an agreement with a third DNS provider for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for Firefox. Alongside the previously offered DNS servers from CloudFlare ("https://1.1.1.1/dns-query") and NextDNS (https://dns.nextdns.io/id), Comcast's service (https://doh.xfinity.com/dns-query) will also be included in the settings. You can activate DoH and choose a provider in the network connection settings. Recall that experimental DNS over HTTPS checks were enabled in Firefox 77 […]

Release of PhotoGIMP 2020, a GIMP modification styled after Photoshop

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The PhotoGIMP project release is now available, developing an add-on for the GIMP 2.10.x graphics editor that makes its interface and behavior more familiar for users acquainted with Adobe Photoshop. Changes include a redesign of settings, menu and control panel layouts, the inclusion of extended fonts, replacement of some icons, additional filters (for instance, the Heal Selection filter has been added), and modifications to keyboard shortcuts. A package is available for download […]

Fedora intends to use the nano text editor by default instead of vi.

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For Fedora 33, a change is planned to switch the default text editor to nano. The proposal was submitted by Chris Murphy from the Fedora Workstation development team but has not yet been approved by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical aspects of Fedora's development. The motivation for using nano as the default instead of vi […]

Planned for implementation in Fedora 33 is

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Last night at the 'Perl and Raku Conference in the Cloud', Sawyer X announced the major version change of Perl from 5 to 7. Work is already underway, and the new version will be released within a year. Don't expect a lot of changes; briefly put, Perl 7 is still the same Perl 5.32 with modern default settings. You no longer have to […]

Bitbucket reminds of the imminent removal of Mercurial repositories and moves away from the word Master in Git

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On July 1, the support period for Mercurial repositories on the Bitbucket collaborative development platform expires. The announcement to discontinue Mercurial in favor of Git was made last August, after which, on February 1, 2020, the creation of new Mercurial repositories was prohibited. The final phase of phasing out Mercurial is scheduled for July 1, 2020, which entails disabling all related support in Bitbucket […]

In gaming tests, the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M came close to the GeForce RTX 2060.

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Recently, Apple has been offering a new exclusive option for the MacBook Pro 16 laptop: the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M mobile graphics card, which combines the Navi 12 (RDNA) GPU and HBM2 memory. You will have to pay an additional $700 for its installation on top of the base laptop price. It's not cheap, but in this case, the buyer will get a true gaming monster. Previously […]

Release of the self-sufficient package system Flatpak 1.8.0

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A new stable branch of the Flatpak 1.8 toolset has been released, providing a system for building self-contained packages that are not tied to specific Linux distributions and run in a special container isolating the application from the rest of the system. Flatpak package support is provided for Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mageia, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu. Flatpak packages are included in the Fedora repository and are supported […]

Release of the Live Distribution Grml 2020.06

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After a year and a half of development, the release of the Live distribution grml 2020.06, based on the Debian GNU/Linux package base, has been published. The distribution includes a collection of tools for processing text data with the texttools package and for performing tasks that arise in the practice of system administrators (data recovery after failure, incident analysis, etc.). The graphical environment is built using the Fluxbox window manager. The size […]

Perl 7 has been announced

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At today's virtual conference for Perl developers, the Perl 7 project was announced, which will smoothly continue the evolution of the Perl 5 branch without making radical changes. Perl 7 will be similar to the Perl 5.32.0 release, except for different default settings that better align with modern development practices. Otherwise, Perl 7 will remain the same Perl 5 and will maintain compatibility with previous […]

Stable Release of Database Management System MariaDB 10.5

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After a year of development and four beta releases, the first stable release of the new MariaDB 10.4 branch has been prepared. This branch evolves from MySQL, retaining backward compatibility while integrating additional storage engines and expanded capabilities. Support for this new branch will be provided for five years, until June 2025. The development of MariaDB is overseen by the independent MariaDB Foundation in accordance with […]

Vulnerability in the Bitdefender SafePay browser leading to code execution

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Vladimir Palant, the creator of Adblock Plus, has discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2020-8102) in the Chromium-based specialized web browser Safepay, offered as part of the Bitdefender Total Security 2020 antivirus package and aimed at enhancing user security in the global network (for example, it provides additional isolation when accessing banks and payment systems). The vulnerability allows websites opened in the browser to execute arbitrary […]

Lemmy 0.7.0

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The release of another major version of Lemmy has taken place — a future federated, but currently centralized implementation of a Reddit-like (or Hacker News, Lobsters) link aggregator. This time, 100 issue reports have been closed, new functionality has been added, and performance and security have been improved. The server implements typical functionality for such sites: content created and moderated by users in interest-based communities — […]

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